Category: Digital Storytelling

  • Uncontrollable Urge to GIF

      If you’re a fan of post punk new wave music I highly recommend watching the 1982 film, Urgh! A Music War. Apparently this film which features the The Go-Go’s, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Dead Kennedys, The Police, of course Devo and many many more awesome acts was regularly broadcast on the USA network during the early days of cable. And…

  • OOOOO…That’s Going To Be A Deduction

    I love that Jim Groom pulled out the 8-bit game GIF assignment with the animate 2600. His 8-bit noir is sheer genius  finding the connection between these minimalist games and the filmmaking that likely inspired them. The inspiration for this moment in C64’s Winter Games is a bit less subtle.  

  • Wocka Wocka Wocka!

      I’ve always connected with Fozzie the Bear. When he tries to be funny, he fails miserably. And when he’s just himself he’s hilarious. Fozzie basically performs best when he’s not performing. Like Fozzie I’m guilty of trying too hard, unsure of what others find funny or interesting. I love Fozzie’s courage (ignorance?), he’s bombing…

  • Day of the MOOC now Animated!

      Some MOOCs are wicked scary, but even more horrifying when turned into an animated movie poster. This is a Riff a GIF of David Kernohan’s Day of the MOOC poster for the Horror of the MOOCs assignment. Remixing other people’s work in ds106 is one of the best things to do to show your love.

  • DS106 STRATEGY

    After having created a few GIF assignments to help seed the DS106 GIFfest which officially started today, I needed to get a submission done! Andrew Forgrave’s GIF the DS106 came to mind with my third semester of teaching DS106 ending tomorrow. It’s hard to believe how many York College students have been working through the ds106 assignment bin creating so…

  • Hello Zombie

    Andrew Forgrave discovered these great zombified corporate logos created by Ben Fellows and a new ds106 assignment was born – or better yet undead – Logos For The Zombie Apocalypse! I felt that logos which employed characters would work best, Ben’s zombie NBA is my favorite. So I did a quick search for corporate logos, and Hello Kitty jumped…

  • Your Nose Is Broke

    I’ve spent time working with the awesome illustrations in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual by creating a couple of coloring books for my kids here and here. I felt like I could use the monsters for more than just coloring. This little video was quite a labor and not exactly what I had originally…

  • Suessing Ethiopia

    During class today we began discussing the remix generator and remix cards as part of this week’s assignments. I created the example, “What Is Culture For You?? [Remixed]: Dr Suess It,” and under the original assignment I found Mis-tery’s trip to Ethiopia. I would have loved to read more about the trip, as it looks…

  • Under A Pile of Work, But Still #DS106 #4LIFE

    It’s been almost two years since I first discovered DS106, the open-online course created at the University of Mary Washington (UMW). And a year since I took my first York College students through the experience (a crazy humbling one for myself). In the Fall 2011 semester UMW decided not to formally run a ds106 course,…

  • We’ll Keep Building At York College

    When I started at York College eleven years ago supporting the edtech department (aside –  holy crap this is the longest job I’ve ever held), I was given the opportunity to look at a proposal for a communications technology major that had been dormant since 1991. At first I was, “huh what’s communications technology, it’s…